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Orleans, La., concerning the opening of trade with the Confederacy
and the opposition of Gen. Edward Canby, and an article
"Our Suffering Trade," [New Orleans] Daily True Delta, Oct. 2
[1864].
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Draper, William Franklin Lt. Col., 36th Massachusetts
(1842-1910) Volunteers
Papers, 1861-1910. 120 items.
Letters from Draper to his family, 1861-63, concerning
military training, General Burnside's expedition to North
Carolina, and the Fredericksburg, Vicksburg, and Knoxville
campaigns. Includes detailed accounts of the Battle of Roanoke
Island, N.C., and engagements at Blue Springs, Campbell's
Station, and Fort Sanders, Tenn. Also contains information on
camp life, morale, recruiting, army organization, promotions,
rank disputes, leadership, and black servants and volunteers.
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Drayton, A. L. CSN
Diary, 1863. 1 v.
Describes the escape of the C.S.S. Florida from Mobile
Bay, the capture of the brig Clarence, and the cruise of the
C.S.S. Clarence against Union commerce. Contains a list of
prizes captured by the Clarence and the Archer, along with the
name, class, weight, port of origin, cargo, and estimated value
of each prize. Also contains verses of the Confederate songs,
"Red, White, and Blue" and "Hood's Texas Brigade," and a
copy of a letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Gen. Louis T. Wigfall,
Sept. 21, 1862.
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Drennan, Daniel O. (ca. 1840-ca. 1905) Clerk, USA
Papers 1861-1904. ca. 4,750 items.
In part, facsimiles and transcripts.
Correspondence, clippings, reports, proclamations,
speeches, memorabilia, and printed matter collected by Drennan
as military secretary to Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, 1865-88.
Includes clippings on battles, military and political leaders
(Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert
E. Lee, Philip H. Sheridan, William T. Sherman, and others),
prisons, the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in Apr. 1865,
and the surrender of Gen. Edmund Kirby-Smith at Galveston,
Tex., in June 1865. Also includes facsimiles of letters from
President Lincoln to Sheridan, copies of Sheridan's correspondence
and reports, 1864—67, a muster roll of Capt. John H.
Merrill's company of New York Volunteers, Apr. 26, 1861, and
a tracing of a map of parts of Alabama and Mississippi used by
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